40 years today

[wittonwarrior]

Wembley Wembley we're all pissed up - game a massive let down but at least we won the cup eventually

[PeterWithesShin]

It was yesterday. I know because it was 7th birthday and my first trip to Wembley. I don't remember sod all about it though.

[West Derby Villan]

Yeah I paid ten times face value for my standing ticket outside the ground, so a very expensive nil nil. Quite surprising really as that 77 team was the best I've ever seen.

[class-of-82]

terrible game though all I can remember was duncan mckenzies chip shot probably because I was well oiled.
I actually got tickets through my season ticket then some from stubs and then some because I was a shareholder. the replay at Hillsborough was better with awesome support from us taking over there kop then old Trafford
happy days

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Pass the ball back, pass the ball back, pass the ball back Everton !

[West Derby Villan]

The delay to the second half because a bandsman lost one of his spurs on the pitch during the interval ?

[castlefields_villan]

It was yesterday. I know because it was 7th birthday and my first trip to Wembley. I don't remember sod all about it though.

Yes you're quite right PWS - 12th March 1977 - after three amazing games against QPR to get there and that unbelievably exciting team of that season - a 0-0 draw was probably the last result anyone would've expected.  Like others there I can barely remember anything about the game itself.

Still we did have all the excitement of the occasion beforehand and of course, it all came good a few weeks later at Old Trafford.

Happy days

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The delay to the second half because a bandsman lost one of his spurs on the pitch during the interval ?

If memory serves, John Gidman found it.

[dave shelley]

What I remember about that day apart from the shit football was, prior to kick-off there was a fight between two Villa fans standing behind us on the Wembley terrace which promptly came to a halt when one of them claimed to have lost one of his contact lenses.  The rest was surreal as about twenty-odd of us were down on our hands and knees helping him look for it and IIRC the other protagonist joined in and helped.

[clash city rocker]

I got tickets by phoning around and eventually bought 2 tickets from Rochdale...Turned out they were in the Everton end but swapped them at Wembley with a couple of Everton fans who had tickets in our end.. After all that the game was highly forgettable

[b23]

We all agree Aston villa are magic

We all agree Everton are tragic

[PeterWithesShin]

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[pbavfckuwait]

I was home on leave from the navy, my old man who if anything was a nose, but more Villa one week, Sty Andrews the next, went and stayed up all night to get me a ticket, think with tokens from the program, missed the first replay but was at Old Trafford for that great night.
QPR was that won at Highbury, or Coventry, old age.

[Godfrey Brian]

I was home on leave from the navy, my old man who if anything was a nose, but more Villa one week, Sty Andrews the next, went and stayed up all night to get me a ticket, think with tokens from the program, missed the first replay but was at Old Trafford for that great night.
QPR was that won at Highbury, or Coventry, old age.

Highbury -the night Brian Little truly walked on water (well thick mud anyway)

[wittonwarrior]

We lost the toss for venue 1st replay of the semi. The second replay had been pencilled in for the following Thursday at the hawthorns happy days